SJSD new school team meets with potential contractors

Community decides whether they want to spend money on a new high school in st.

Joseph, designers and contractors are talking about how it would be built.

Thanks for joining us, i'm alan van zandt.

Today, project leads for the work met with potential contractors to show them what it will take to get the job done.

<<they would pour the concrete, hook up the electrical and do all the drywall at what would be st.

Joseph's new high school --- that designers say would be one of a kind for the area.

"the new, future ready environment for education."

Potential vendors got a look at the job on tuesday -- project leaders inviting them in to learn what it's going to take to turn the american family campus into the site school administrators have selected to become the city's new high school..

The project -- the vision of the dlr group, who along with mccowngordon construction have designed and built hundreds of k-12 schools across the midwest and country.

They say they stand behind their work.

"we do this for a living and we see the end result.

To see the kids' faces when they come in to the space and the teachers, compared to what they had in the past, there's nothing better than seeing their faces.

For all the schools these firms have built, they say the american family project in st.

Joseph is unique for a number of reasons.

"number one is schedule.

If you look at having to build new construction in that whole envelope this project is about eight months faster brand new greenfield.

The second is cost.

It's $6 million in savings.

Longterm, there's additional square footage that's available there that they can expand their programs without having to build brand new construction."and this project for st.

Joseph, leads say it will be built by as many area companies as possible -- some that have struggled during the covid economic slowdown."we've tried to make due where we could, take the work we could get."

"it's a community project and the community is going to make the decision if they are going to invest in the school district."in the end they say if the new school gets built, it will be something the community can be proud of.

I have no doubt that we can accomplish something special for this community at american about 3/4ths of the 107 million bond would go toward building the new school.

The rest would be for air conditioning at the three current high schools as well as some athletic facility renovations at central.

Voters go to the polls to decide the fate of the bond one week from